Non-Abelian dual superconductor picture for quark confinement
Abstract
We give a theoretical framework for defining and extracting non-Abelian magnetic monopoles in a gauge-invariant way in SU(N) Yang-Mills theory to study quark confinement. Then we give numerical evidences that the non-Abelian magnetic monopole defined in this way gives a dominant contribution to confinement of fundamental quarks in SU(3) Yang-Mills theory, which is in sharp contrast to the SU(2) case in which Abelian magnetic monopoles play the dominant role for quark confinement.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- June 2011
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1007.2696
- Bibcode:
- 2011PhRvD..83k4016K
- Keywords:
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- 12.38.Aw;
- 12.38.Gc;
- 21.65.Qr;
- General properties of QCD;
- Lattice QCD calculations;
- Quark matter;
- High Energy Physics - Theory;
- High Energy Physics - Lattice;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 9 pages, 3 figures (4 ps files)